Word: foils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temperature, tinfoil. Into the merging pot were thrown two companies making devices to control temperature (Robert Shaw Thermostat Co., Fulton Sylphon Co.). two companies producing tinfoil (U. S. Foil Co., Beechnut Foil Co.). Reynolds Metal Co. emerged...
...Meredith. Edwin Thomas Meredith of Iowa, who was President Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), refused months ago to let his name be used as a foil. But someone-perhaps William Gibbs McAdoo-has been talking to him. Last week he announced that, after all, "I do ... covet the confidence and goodwill of my fellow citizens here in Iowa." He allowed his name to be entered locally as a "Stop Smith" candidate...
...General Electric, two years ago succeeded more magnificently. For his window he used a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin. (Human hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They made minerals fluoresce, killed bacteria and insects, burned a rabbit...
...plainly actuated by the motives of desire and jealousy as expounded in English 2, and with no suggestion of satanic depths to his character, except perhaps at the end where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered...
...glory, two heroes of their lives. When, at the time Ruth Elder took off for Paris, two other brave Frenchmen, Dieudonne Costes & Joseph Le Brix, challenged the Atlantic, to another conflict, the hearts of all Frenchmen went with them. Their ship, the Nungesser-Coli, was to pick up the foil of the dead heroes, was to continue the duel on behalf of the entire nation...